Trump surrendered today.

[flotsam]

The New York Times issued the coup de grace last night with their story reporting that Trump learned no later than March that the Russians had placed a bounty on the heads of US and coalition forces in Afghanistan and that Trump not only failed to apply any sanctions but thereafter still suggested admitting Russia to the G-7 conferences.

Got it-the premier US newspaper, the Old Gray Lady openly accused Trump of treason and cowardice in the face of the enemy and his response was silence and a golf outing!

I know crazed shithouse rats-when threatened they attack. If "The Donald" thought there was a one in a million chance of survival he would either be out raging and lying and projecting or at least locked himself and his unter-rats in the bunker to plot the final overthrow of democracy. Instead it seems he has accepted his political death and moved on to his imagined afterlife of endless golf and McDonalds meals.

Leave the moron to his bittersweet loser dreams and imagined victimhood and let him quietly drift through his lamest of ducks wrap up. And never mention the largest series of corruption investigations in US History that will surely follow. Shhh, it's going to be a surprise!

[House of Roberts]

1. What kind of golf courses do they have in Russia?

[renate]

2. Once he's no longer useful, Putin will crumple him up like a Kleenex and throw him away

He’ll never get to find out about golf courses in Russia.

[Grasswire2]

5. yes, Putin's denouement of Trump will be nasty, brutish, and short. nt

[CanonRay]

14. A "fall" off a balcony on the 20th floor

[keithbvadu2]

15. Does hydroxychloroquine protect against polonium 210?

Does hydroxychloroquine protect against polonium 210?

[2naSalit]

21. ...

[BComplex]

42. The meanest thing Putin could do to trump is...nothing. Not take his calls. Nada. Nothing.

Narcissists hate being ignored. Putin knows that.

[ooky]

27. I think Putin's going to embarrass him. Maybe with that wee wee video.

But having him thrown out of an airplane (Goldfinger style) would be delightfully brutish.

[SergeStorms]

17. In essence...

Russia owns all of Trump's golf courses since they financed them. We won't find out about all that until after the election though. Putin isn't one to let people out of their obligations easily. I think he'll make Trump pay, and pay, and pay for his transgressions. Much more so than any republican in Congress, that's for sure.

[warmfeet]

7. I don't know, but they are all located in a Siberian "work camp." NT

[JHB]

19. Many people say there's a fine one on Komsomolets Island. A perfect one.

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. Oh man! What a story!

I'd never heard of it...

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/95unclass/Montgomery.html

[John Fante]

3. I want to know what President Biden is going to do about Putin?

This piece of shit needs a day of reckoning, and soon. That obviously won't happen with Trump, so what is Biden prepared to do?

I think we should end relations with Russia and encourage other NATO members to follow suit. Putin wants to reignite the Cold War, let's grant him his wish.

[BannonsLiver]

6. My guess is he will be very aggressive

Sanctions, etc. everything that can be done up to a shooting war. It’ll be very Cold War.

[misanthrope]

18. In a way that might be good

The United States has always been a loose federation of rival regional subcultures. While it's led to a lot of ill, we've found ways past it in times where external threats emerged to alter our perspective. Since the Cold War ended, we've lacked that unifying threat and the result has been polarization and fracturing to an extent we haven't seen since the mid-19th century.

I don't have any warm remembrances of the Cold War's existential dread, but we badly need something to patch this country together again.

[BigmanPigman]

28. I didn't think of it that way but now that you mantion it

I think you are onto something.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Hopefully

Snatch him from his dacha. After yesterday’s revelation CAG, DEVGRU and every other tier-1 unit will be begging for this mission.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Here:

[bucolic_frolic]

12. The Cold War never ended

We believed perestroika and glasnost. Our leaders thought capitalism had won. The Berlin Wall fell. Wasn't that the end?

They sure should have known better. The Iron Curtain was an uneasy peace. We demanded democracy. Stalin insisted on choosing the candidates and elections were not fair. We insisted on capitalism and banking that fed profits to corporations. Soviets wanted profits for the state.

They never forgave us. Make Russia Great Again? Like Tsarist Russia, 1910. So they're after us now. We should have expected it.

I think Biden will be firm but start slowly. We have a lot of domestic housekeeping to do, politically and economically. We're running on Fed money. A healthy economy runs on innovation and job creation. We've been lagging for a long time. But I always want to know - what is there to invent? We're drowning in materialism. The fountain of youth is about the only frontier to conquer.

[BigmanPigman]

30. Climate change/science and real infrastructure, etc

can provide tons of new jobs in many, many different fields, both for those who are educated or not.

[modrepub]

46. Reduce oil/gas Dependency

Those are Russian economic assets. The sooner we wean ourselves of fossil fuels the better. Trump is currently slow walking lots of wind projects off the east coast. Those projects need to be prioritized day 1 if Biden wins in November.

[Cha]

4. trump & his toads were too Stupid to think this would ever GET OUT

in the Public Domain.

[NotHardly]

16. Don't trust 'em for a minute.He and Barr likely trying to figure out how to fully take control of US

[BigmanPigman]

31. Bingo!

Sleep with one eye open until Inauguration Day.

[Bobstandard]

10. Trump will counterattack:

We’ve seen this too often. When faced with bad news Trump always comes back with a diversion. This latest bad news is so bad that we can expect an even more horrendous response. I’m really worried. And I didn’t think I could get more worried than I already was.

[kairos12]

11. Drumpt could care less. His donors have no one serving the military. Our soldiers, in his estimation

are Putin's cannon fodder. This news will mean nothing to MAGATs.

I say this as an infantry vet.

[dem4evah]

26. Listen to kairos12 folks...

the 'source' of this story is the NY Times. There's a reason he's attacked them so VOCIFEROUSLY over the last three years. It's to completely discredit them with his cult followers, and by god it works. Never seen anything like it. I could be wrong, but they will march out the usual suspects for the Sunday morning news shows and deny, lie, obfuscate, and gas light until the cows come home. Schlapp, Miller, Conway, Navarro....and a few more parasites will defend this POS to the death. That 40% is rock solid. While it's not enough to win the election, it damn well is enough to continue making him millions after he's out of office and also really cause problems for Biden and the Dems.

These dolts aren't going away any time soon, sadly. I live in a red part of Michigan (near Grand Rapids, MI) near where Betsy DeVos lives and the signs, flags, support and craziness are off the HOOK for MFer 45. Never seen anything like it before or since. I hope he loses in Nov., gets investigated and has a crippling stroke or Covid19 and dies in disgrace. Hopefully, no other former American Prez will attend the funeral. I know Biden, Obama and Clinton wouldn't. Bush? Maybe, cuz deep down he's deplorable too. I feel dirty to hate someone this much, but after today especially....he's more than earned it.

[BComplex]

43. Welcome to DU, dem4evah.

I feel the same way you do about it. It's not going to be paradise just because Biden might end up getting in, in spite of having to fight the republican party, a well-padded extreme right wing justice, AND russia.

We have a battle ahead of us, but we won't stop until we get the last one of those buggers.

[kairos12]

47. Welcome dem4evah!

[RainCaster]

13. There is no golfing in US penitentiaries

Donny will have plenty of time to reflect on his failures.

[ancianita]

20. He might just be leaving the rest to his Chinese and Russian axis leaders to bring him his 'win.'

This behavior isn't necessarily an indication that he's given up or thinks he's losing. He might know stuff we don't.

I'm just hoping you're right. But don't count out other players in this miserable geopolitical drama.

[BComplex]

44. Oh, he knows. He's already paid for it with the Care package money.

[Hassler]

22. memo to: POUTUS. Avoid open windows.

[Crunchy Frog]

23. He fundamentally believes that he can get away with anything.

I think he genuinely believes that he didn't do anything wrong, that he never has, and that he'll never be held accountable.

[paleotn]

39. Lots of them believe exactly that....

even from their cells in federal prisons.

[spanone]

24. K&R...

Any republican speaking out on this?

[flotsam]

25. I don't know how to respond to y'all

I'm pissed almost beyond belief so I posted my little screed....I'm both surprised and gratified when folks respond like this. Thanks to every respondent and let us hope I read him right. This board more than anything else is how I survived Bush the lesser and now this. Pray, fight, and kill with words when you are able. You are my people and I just try to deserve you!

[The Polack MSgt]

29. No.

[flotsam]

32. Your's is an answer

But I'm confused as to what?

[mrsadm]

37. I believe it was a response to no. 24,

Quote:

Any republican speaking out on this?

[flotsam]

38. I believe you are correct! N/T

[NeoGreen]

33. Now if only he would take the GOP down with him (nt)

[denem]

34. The Lincoln Project are on it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213664893

[RobertDevereaux]

35. Let it be so!

[paleotn]

40. He's doing just that...

This is a stink you just can't remove. Even if Donnie steps down, Nikki Haley, Pence or anyone else are still irreparably tainted. It will be a center piece of every senate and congressional election this year. Moscow Mitch can't escape it. Susan Collins had her chance to do something about this, but failed and will be blamed. It will haunt what's left of the Rethuglican party for decades. It's that fucking bad. And worse is still to come from upcoming investigations that will drag on for years. I think this will go down as the greatest political disaster in American history. A party, at the pinnacle of its power, destroyed itself through breath taking stupidity. In 2150, high school kids will read about this and wonder what the fuck was wrong with these people.

[paleotn]

41. My prediction.....

Before the January inauguration, he and his entourage of grifters skip to a country that lacks an extradition treaty, leaving Mike Pence to serve out the shortest presidential term in American history.

[BComplex]

45. Then Pence deserves to take the heat that belongs to ALL of them. He's the vp, after all.

Second in command.

[GopherGal]

48. Are there Trump Properties in countries w/o Extradition?

And, if so, how many have golf courses?

[paleotn]

49. Faced with possible criminal conviction....

I don't think he'll care. His properties will probably be forfeited anyway.